ARCH-871QP Architecture and the Human Sciences
3 Credits
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ARCH-871QP-01
Monday
2:00 pm â 4:50 pm
Higgins Hall Center, 016
This course rereads the history of architecture from the 19th century to the present day through the relationships, interactions, and exchanges between architecture and the human sciences. Addressing the use of human scientific methods and theories by architects and architectural historians, this course equally attends to the presence of architecture within the works of the so-called soft sciences. Surfacing a range of media, texts, drawings, video, photography, the course moves along sites of analysis, the field, the archive, the laboratory, the building, and the city, exploring the ways in which architecture forms, materials, techniques have been construed, constructed, designed, and enumerated: questioning both the human of the human sciences and the humanism of modernism.